On lentisk leaves; or lie them down, ripe strawberries o'er their head. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Round about her were huddled the drowsy boys; on the slopes of the steep place where she lay she could see the goats browsing on lentisk and juniper, acanthus, bramble, mountain-ash. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
From the lentisk bushes and the cypress of the north to the shingle sands of Skala in the south, from the underground lakes of Sami in the east to the vertiginous slopes of Petani in the west, Arsenios trudged and sermonised. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
And the bushy piles of lentisk to rest the aching brow. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus] Reference
Of shrubs, below the rank of trees, the most important are the lentisk. From Wordnik.com. [History of Phoenicia] Reference
Nearer the shore the lentisk grows, a savory shrub, with cytisus and aromatic rosemary. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasures of Life] Reference
The wild fig bursts from the living rock, mixed with lentisk-shrubs and pendent caper-plants. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Besides the pine, its most common trees are the prickly oak, myrtle, lentisk, carob and olive. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
My goats eat cytisus, and goatswort, and tread the lentisk shoots, and lie at ease among the arbutus. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
Now Pentheus from a lofty cliff was watching all, deep hidden in an ancient lentisk hush, a plant of that land. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
The sea-shore is a tangle of lilac and oleander and laurustinus and myrtle and lentisk and cytisus and geranium. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
The dunes were covered with thick bushes of lentisk, myrtle and similar shrubs; every step bruised some scented thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
There we reclined on deep beds of fragrant lentisk, lowly strown, and rejoicing we lay in new stript leaves of the vine. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
The sacred island, I suppose, on the other side of a bridge of boats, covered with what seems a scrub of ilex and lentisk. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
It was overcast yesterday, and the sun set as we approached this place, the train passing through woods of myrtle and lentisk scrub. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
Mountain and valley, oak wood and ilex grove, lentisk thicket and winding river-bed, are drowned alike in soft-descending, soaking rain. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
The most common vegetation is Mediterranean maquis, evergreen bushes and shrubs (myrtle, lentisk, laurel ...), which are usually 2-3 m high. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill] Reference
Soon the gardens cease, and lentisk, rosemary, box, and ilex -- shrubs of Provence -- with here and there a sumach out of reach, cling to the hard stone. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
A sound of harmonium and girls 'hymn issuing out of the ruin, on which grow against the sky great tufts of fennel, of stuff like London pride and of budding lentisk. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
Aram. pistheqa-pesag (Dan., xiii, 54), the lentisk, Pistacia lentiscus, common in the East, which exudes a fragrant resin extensively used to flavour sweetmeats, wine, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Samphire, very salt and fragrant, grows in the rocky honeycomb; then lentisk and beach-loving myrtle, both exceeding green and bushy; then rosemary and euphorbia above the reach of spray. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
Cistus, myrtle and cactus; cytisus, lentisk, arbutus; daphne, heath, broom, juniper and ilex -- these few I recognised, but there was no end to their varieties and none to their tangle of colours. From Wordnik.com. [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference
Olive (Olea europea), carob (Cerotonia siliqua), oak (Quercus coccifera), pistachio (Pistacia palestina), lentisk (P. lenticus), and Arbutus andrachne are the principal species of the maquis communities. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests] Reference
Yet I held on, crawling through thickets of lentisk, tangling my legs in creepers, pushing my head into clumps of cactus, here tearing my hands and boots on sharp granite, there ripping my clothes on prickly thorns. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
Then he began to climb the mountain, first through brown woods of beech and oak, then through pine and broom, and then across red stony ledges where only a pinched growth of lentisk and briar spread in patches over the rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit and the Wild Woman] Reference
Most of the hills through which they strike, after starting from Ajaccio, are clothed with a thick brushwood of box, ilex, lentisk, arbutus, and laurustinus, which stretches down irregularly into vineyards, olive-gardens, and meadows. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
The road to Les Baux crosses a true Provençal desert where one realises the phrase, 'Vieux comme les rochers de Provence,' -- a wilderness of grey stone, here and there worn into cart-tracks, and tufted with rosemary, box, lavender, and lentisk. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
(myrtle, lentisk, laurel ...), which are usually 2-3 m high. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill] Reference
The word çori is also applied to the gum from the mastic tree, or lentisk (Pistacia lentiscus, cf. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
In Theocritus a number of friends walk into the country to a harvest festival: -- "There we reclined on deep beds of fragrant lentisk, and rejoicing we lay in new-stripped leaves of the vine. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Of the lentisk and ilex. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
Gymnast was making tooth-pickers with lentisk. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
Through lentisk and through oleander; there235. From Wordnik.com. [The Hamadryad] Reference
With new-mown grass and lentisk-shoots. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus] Reference
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